These recursos are an important and welcome addition to the
ongoing Chilean and international campaign to stop these unnecessary
dams in the breathtaking corner of the world known as Patagonia.

The injunctions were filed against the approval of the HidroAysén EIA granted on May 9th. The issues to be addressed are:1. The lack of appropriate baseline information in the environmental impact study;2. The project doesn't own the water rights to operate under the conditions for which it was approved; and3. Since the beginning of the environmental review process, the government
bodies tasked with environmental oversight signaled that they could not
perform a full evaluation due to missing essential information, and
therefore the project should have been cancelled.

The next step will be legal hearings during which the PSR will seek to overturn the resolution approving the EIA, and thus either require an entirely new environmental review process, or the outright cancellation of HidroAysén.

For
now, we must all hope that HidroAysén is finally recognized for what it
truly is - a corporate and political plot to exploit public resources
for private gain using free water rights granted by the legendary
dictator Pinochet. May the rule of law - and not the legacy of the Chicago Boys - prevail in Chile.